Drive On has come to rainy Phoenix to witness the auctions, such as this one right now by RM Auctions and continuing tomorrow with Barrett-Jackson and other auctions. Tom duPont of the duPont Registery, who was checking out the action, says he was particularly taken with the 1960s Aston Martins, especially the DB4s.
One of them is the 1963 Aston Martin DB4 GT, the one above. This one was the last one produced at Aston's Newport Pagnell factory. It has an aluminum body and a 302-horsepower in-line six-cylinder engine. Bidding opened at $500,000. Applause went up when it cracked the $900,000 mark and the car sold for $910,000 -- considered a bargain since its bretheren have gone for as much as $1.5 million.
RM's sports car specialist Jack Boxstrom knows this car well. He says he raced it about 15 years ago. It's no delicate flower of a car. "It's like an anvil," he says. Only 75 were produced between 1959 and 1963 -- but it's not the Aston that Sean Connery's 007 made famous. That was a DB5.
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